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Beja B Photography

Preserving the precious moments Memories are important but fragile:
They are the bits and pieces that make up who we are.

I am not just about taking pictures but preserving moments designed to stand the test of time,
- moments that will always be part of your memories.

10/14/2021

Alright, I did it - first Live here sharing my to-go, quick, and efficient 5 mins make up.

First picture is me with no makeup, only skincare, just leaving home to drop off kids at school.
Second one is the ‘after’ pic💄 😊

Since I’m a portrait photographer, I admit that I absolutely love hiding behind my camera; but the more I read and learn about how uplifting transformation being vulnerable can be - I’ve decided to start a new journey.

No more hiding, no more excuses why I don’t ‘matter’ or how I don’t have new things to say...

Because, just as I’m empowering my subjects in front of my lens: we are ALL unique, and special, and there is no another YOU or another ME ❤️

If I can help anyone, anywhere with sharing my hacks in my life, it will be all 💯 worth it ❤️

What holds you back in a weekday to wear makeup? What would help you? Let’s chat 💬

ps: special thank you for Pam and Rebecca teaching me so many cool tricks in make up and their guidance on which safe, clean products to use 💕

10/13/2021

“And I would find myself again. Not the same version of me that I was looking for, but a stronger version.

A wiser version.

A woman who knew that she was enough, just as she was. A woman who had been tried in the fire but instead of being burned by it, came out gold.

A woman who finally, after doubting and questioning and striving and hustling for her worth for years…

finally, finally came to the realization that

she was and is and has always been…
ENOUGH.”
-Mandy Hale

BAMMM
Did you read that?!

A woman who was, and is, and has always been ENOUGH?
Can we just pause here for a second?
Taking a deep breath, closing our eyes and repeating it?
I was and I am and I have always been ENOUGH.

You may have the same question that I had:
WHY is it so damn hard to love ourselves?
WHAT it takes to do so? oh and hold, you may even wonder
WHY do I have to love myself?!

Thinking back of my childhood, my mom, and all the female members in my family on both sides - there was zero self-love or self-care. Or speaking up or really sharing their emotions without shame and fear.
Yes, yes, it was a different generation - but someone needs to break that collective ancestor pain, right? Otherwise, what option the next generation has?!
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Being a portrait photographer who works with women most often - I've decided that it is my responsibility to guide, and empower my clients to start their own journey.

What do you think all of this?
Do you need more self-love and self-care in your life?
What is the biggest obstacle that holds you back?
Let’s discuss and support each other ❤️

06/28/2021

" I hope you love someone who feels like winter; they will freeze your heart over until the chill cracks it wide open. They will leave you with rubble and destruction in their wake. It will teach you the grit to pick up the pieces when you feel you can’t go on. It will teach you the strength to stitch yourself back together on your own. It will teach you the courage to find peace in being alone.

I hope you love someone who feels like spring; they will thaw the ice with their golden sunshine. They will plant seeds in the places your heart was broken. It will show you how to bury sadness with compassion. It will show you how to water dreams with hope. Amidst the blooming flowers, you will finally know: all that is beautiful begins with darkness, but it is through perseverance, and love, that we grow."

- Kristen Robinson

02/13/2021

"Our love is fierce and unique. Our love is individual and deep. Our children can sense our love in everything they do no matter how far from us they drift as they grow. Their hearts know compassion because we showed it to them. We are forever tethered to our families through love."
words by Sarah Cottrell

12/02/2020

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

Which do you choose? Which will you teach to your child?
We have been constantly conversing about perspectives, gratitude, kindness in our family - no, they are not necessarily easy concepts to teach to little ones but I wholeheartedly believe that we must start at early age

11/20/2020

Dear Daughter,

I haven't slept for about 15 months after your arrival. Probably longer.
I thought I was so prepared for you and believed I knew what I was doing.
I was not. Because there is just no way to perfectly prepare for your baby's arrival.

My dear Daughter, I'm not gonna lie to you: mostly what I remember from that fifteen long, blurry months are the iced coffees I picked up every day. Rain or shine. Or some stolen moments in solitude, along that coffee, reading one page of my book, on the corner of our block, back in Brooklyn then running home to you and so your daddy could leave to work.

Something I do remember well was that desperate feeling of being alone and isolated. Alone and isolated in a crowd.
Not sleeping only made everything even worse, it acted as an amplifier.

I was desperate to find the secret: how to help you sleep. How to teach you to sleep. How to guide you to sleep.
Everybodies' babies around us were sleeping. My Dear, they were taking naps!
LONG naps, several a day. They slept through the night!
You and I? Noooo, we didn't . We did not sleep.
For fifteen months.

All along I thought I can either fix it or that I'm not doing something well...what if I hire a sleep consultant? how about if I make the room pitch dark?! (I mean completely dark - when you father came home, I think he honestly thought I lost my mind...) What if I put on white noise or I sing endlessly or I...

Looking back, you being 6 years old now, it's clear that there was never a secret to it or a magical fix. Some babies just don’t really sleep around the clock. 🤷‍♀️
There was the lesson that YOU taught me: to be present and surrender. To accept and not fight it.
How funny - after all, you are my teacher and I thank you for that, my dear Daughter.

I wish all the best and all the peace for all the newborn mamas - wherever you are in the world.
There will be so much noise about what you should/could/must do with your babies - from close family members or friends or even a stranger on the street (yes!).
You my Love, you go and ignore that noise and trust yourself and your heart and your instinct - but really, your baby. S/he will teach you something valuable too❤️

11/16/2020

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”
― Maya Angelou

Go and brighten someone’s day - with a smile ❤️

Doesn’t Ashley, founder of have the greatest smile?!
Her genuine care and knowledge about anything related to childbirth and AFTER childbirth is outstanding!
If you are expecting, in a need of childbirth class, looking for answers, check her page out!

11/14/2020

“We are more alike than different. We Are One.”

One family
Riding the waves of this absolutely insane year of 2020 together.
We exist and love and cry and laugh together.
We hug and hold and remind each other to keep our faith
As we are marching towards a
Brand new year.

Wrap this year with capturing your family portraits: my book is open for dates, link in bio

11/11/2020

Book is open for mini sessions

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
― A.A. Milne

I dream so I can be with my family,
With my friends who
Became my sisters and brothers and are
Painfully so far away.

An ocean away.

I dream to dull the pain of missing the
Ones who I can't see in this world
Again.

Together,
We are,
In the sunshine and blue sky or
We ride out the storm and rain.

Together.
We are.

Till then
I'm going to look at your photographs
To have you
Right here,
With me.
In my heart
Where you belong.

Together.
We are.

11/09/2020

2020 has been the year we'll all remember.
Full of challenges and hardships.

2020 has been the year to show all of us that life is fragile;
Reminding us to appreciate that we are alive,
to cherish the loved ones who are still with us,
and to remember the ones we've lost.

2020 was also the year when we discovered our strength,
and safeguarded our hope for a brighter future.

In the last leg of 2020, I'm offering mini sessions to capture you and your loved ones.
Safe, socially distant, and economical;
these short sessions are an excellent opportunity for creating gorgeous portraits that stand the test of time.
Send holiday greetings, update that family photo on the wall, or even upgrade your LinkedIn profile picture!
All are welcome: families, expecting moms (with or without family), couples and individuals.

Please contact me with any questions before booking - I'm here to guide you at [email protected]

To book your session: https://holidayportraitminisession.as.me/schedule.php

11/06/2020

Book is open for mini sessions - link in bio

“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.” ― Mitch Albom

Share your story,
Capture it,
You need to be remembered!

You are important - you are the beginning for somebody else.
You are you
You are needed
You are beautiful and unique as you are!
Your story needs to be told.

Have that picture captured,
Share it
To be remembered.

You are important,
You are you
You are needed
You are.....

Chant it and
Say it
Over and
Over again!

11/05/2020

"Remember me
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember me
Don't let it make you cry
For even if I'm far away, I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me”
by Kristen Anderson-Lopez / Robert J. Lopez

I miss her so much.
I was organizing the home office and I found a letter I wrote to her after her passing.

You know those moments that are burnt into your memory, eternally? You remember exactly where you were, the colors, the light, the feelings you felt.
This letter and her portrait are one of those memories for me.
It was hard to read it. The pain I buried neatly and tightly away in a tiny box in a faraway part of my heart was cracked open.
It had to happen, I had to remember her with a raw, freshly bleeding heart again. To feel.

"I love you so much. And just as my tears are running down on my face: I am sitting on the subway. Alone. In New York. I hear your trembling voice as you ask me over and over again: 'My dear Beja, you have gone so far away, When are you coming Home?'
And I still don't know my darling little Mami.
I am so far away from home - you have moved even further.
But you will never be able to go so far away where I can't bring you back from.
I am always thinking of you and I always will.

You cannot even imagine how hard it was to close that door on that day, knowing that I will never, ever find you in your room again.
Knowing that you will never, ever bake me biscuits or cook stuffed cabbage for me. The way I like it - with sauerkraut, not with tomato sauce as mother makes it.
You will be with me, in every drop of blood my heart pumps. You are my beginning that will never end. You will live not only through me, but through your great grandchildren and through their children, through eternity. Because that's how fantastic a person you were. Incredibly strong.”

Love your Loved Ones
Tell them
Hold them for a long second

Remember them and help them to
Remember - family photos are more important than ever - send them one or two or a bunc 💖

11/03/2020

MINI HOLIDAY PORTRAIT SESSION

I'm truly excited to share with you that I'm offering mini portrait sessions before the holidays.
It's a great way to quickly have gorgeous portraits for your holiday cards or update that family photo on your wall.

Photos do carry magical power: they help us to remember, to recall sometimes forgotten, buried memories - we all need that in these challenging times.

If you have any questions, please reach out at [email protected]
Please see my work at www.bejab.com
To learn more about the mini sessions, click https://holidayportraitminisession.as.me/schedule.php

10/26/2020

“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
― Neil Gaiman

The World needs
So much
Kindness.

All we need
Is
Kindness.

If we only teach our children
One thing:
Teach Kindness ❤️

10/13/2020

Looking for a pregnancy model in Los Angeles and area for outdoor portraits at 28-34 weeks
You don't need to be a professional model ❤️
✉️ Please contact for details: [email protected]

03/31/2019

“When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep it close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.”
― Jodi Picoult

Yes yes yes.
All of that.

After my second baby I still don’t have my body back - she is 19 months old...and I am okay with it and I am not beating myself upon it about the external look.
I am grateful for my body for giving me 2 amazing kiddos and I need to start to follow up with the pledge I made: to take care of her. My body.

It is NOT about how I look, please, thankfully and gratefully, I’m over that obstacle.

It is about HOW I FEEL in my body that needs work.
Lots of work.

I feel weak. Everything hurts. Pretty much always.
My back, my lower back, my knee, Diastasis recti, yeah, got that one too. Coughing has its side effects too...you know what I’m talking about...

Where do I start? Mentally I acknowledge that it is only ME who can change it, who needs to do the first step but every time I get overwhelmed...Being on self-care and self-love journey since November helps my mind tremendously but I am still not ‘working out’...

Any good advice you can give me? Have yo been in my shoe and managed to break the cycle? Or are you struggling with the same challenges?
I know I am not alone, let’s figure this out Ladies 💪💪💪

03/28/2019

My self care and self love journey started last year in November and took me straight to Sacred Beauty Collective . It was created, organized and executed by the awesomest Rebecca Casciano

03/28/2019

Timeline photos

03/09/2019

“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many f***s about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a f**k about the pain, you become unstoppable." ~~~~ Mark Manson”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

I re and re and reread his writing. Time to time.
I am learning how to not to give a f**k. In all areas of my life. It is not easy but it is possible and doable.

I also believe it is harder for women to give less f**k. We give WAY TO MANY F**KS in our life. Quite stressful and draining...

We give a f**k on how we look, what xyz think of us, should I go this way or that way, on what to have for dinner.
We give a f**k about if we are enough, we question ourselves if we are strong and clever and funny and cute and sexy enough.
We hide and pass on being on a photo because we give too many f**ks on how we will look and missing the point that we are strong and pretty and cute and sexy and BOLD and BEAUTIFUL enough. We are just enough.

You are
And
I am too.

That’s why I am a portrait photographer and that is why I capture you - for you to see yourself that way. Your Beauty - so you can start to believe in yourself.

I
Give
You
Proof.

You
Are
Just
Enough.

Happy Belated Women’s Day to all of you beautiful Beings

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